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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c index 6907b8e85d5..4c80f155743 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c @@ -414,9 +414,17 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void) that might execute the to be patched code. Other CPUs are not running. */ stop_nmi(); -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE - stop_mce(); -#endif + + /* + * Don't stop machine check exceptions while patching. + * MCEs only happen when something got corrupted and in this + * case we must do something about the corruption. + * Ignoring it is worse than a unlikely patching race. + * Also machine checks tend to be broadcast and if one CPU + * goes into machine check the others follow quickly, so we don't + * expect a machine check to cause undue problems during to code + * patching. + */ apply_alternatives(__alt_instructions, __alt_instructions_end); @@ -456,9 +464,6 @@ void __init alternative_instructions(void) (unsigned long)__smp_locks_end); restart_nmi(); -#ifdef CONFIG_X86_MCE - restart_mce(); -#endif } /** |